Biographia Literaria; Or, Biographical Sketches of My Literary Life and Opinions, Volume 1First edition of this autobiography in discourse. |
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... position of every word ; and I well remember , that availing himself of the syno- nimes to the Homer of Didymus , he made us attempt to show , with regard to each , why it would not have answered the same purpose ; and wherein consisted ...
... position of every word ; and I well remember , that availing himself of the syno- nimes to the Homer of Didymus , he made us attempt to show , with regard to each , why it would not have answered the same purpose ; and wherein consisted ...
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... position of a word , in Milton or Shakspeare , ( in their most important works at least ) without making the author say something else , or something worse , than he does say . One great distinction , I appeared to myself to see plainly ...
... position of a word , in Milton or Shakspeare , ( in their most important works at least ) without making the author say something else , or something worse , than he does say . One great distinction , I appeared to myself to see plainly ...
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... position and choice of words , in Mr. Pope's original compositions , particularly in his satires and moral essays , for the purpose of comparing them with his translation of Homer , which , I do not stand alone in re- garding as the ...
... position and choice of words , in Mr. Pope's original compositions , particularly in his satires and moral essays , for the purpose of comparing them with his translation of Homer , which , I do not stand alone in re- garding as the ...
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... position which one had cited as execrable , Ego contemplatus . Now the change of one visual image for another involves in itself no absurdity , and becomes absurd only by its immediate juxta - position with the first thought , which is ...
... position which one had cited as execrable , Ego contemplatus . Now the change of one visual image for another involves in itself no absurdity , and becomes absurd only by its immediate juxta - position with the first thought , which is ...
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... positions on this subject are unmixed with fiction . The wise Stagyrite speaks of no successive particles propagating motion like billiard balls ( as Hobbs ; ) nor of nervous or animal spirits , where inanimate and irrational solids are ...
... positions on this subject are unmixed with fiction . The wise Stagyrite speaks of no successive particles propagating motion like billiard balls ( as Hobbs ; ) nor of nervous or animal spirits , where inanimate and irrational solids are ...
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Biographia Literaria; Or, Biographical Sketches of My Literary Life and Opinions No preview available - 2020 |
Biographia Literaria Or Biographical Sketches of My Literary Life and Opinions Samuel Taylor Coleridge No preview available - 2019 |
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